Overview

• Surveillance footage dated July 16 from Sweida National Hospital shows armed figures, some wearing “Internal Security Forces” uniforms, forcing medical staff to kneel and executing a volunteer medic who resisted.
• The Syrian Interior Ministry has appointed Maj. Gen. Abdul Qader Al-Tahhan to lead an internal investigation and pledged to hold those responsible to account.
• Activist monitors and rights groups attribute the hospital attack to defence and interior ministry forces but the government has not yet confirmed the assailants’ affiliations.
• Syrian and international rights organizations have rejected the domestic inquiry’s credibility and are demanding an impartial international commission of inquiry.
• Sweida province continues to suffer fragile ceasefires, widespread displacement and strained aid access after weeks of sectarian clashes.